By Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 02 June 2009 2141 hrs
Health screening officers monitor passengers through a thermal scanner at the Changi International Airport SINGAPORE : The Ministry of Health has confirmed Singapore's eighth H1N1 flu case. The patient is a 15-year-old Singaporean student studying in India.
He had travelled to Orlando and Atlanta in the US on a school trip from May 17 to 31.
He returned to Singapore from Atlanta via Mumbai on Singapore Airlines flight SQ 421 (Seat 39K) on June 1 at 7.36pm.
The patient was feverish during the flight, and was picked up by thermal scanners at Changi Airport.
He was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and subsequently warded at KK Women's and Children's Hospital in the early hours on Tuesday.
Laboratory results confirmed his infection on Tuesday afternoon.
The Health Ministry is tracing his close contacts. - CNA /ls
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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